What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim Carrey

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily Tomlin

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Annie Leibovitz

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
Annie Leibovitz

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Annie Leibovitz

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Eminem

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Tim Allen

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley